Germany's Sovereign TechFund has been providing significant, much-needed investment in a variety of open source upstream projects, from the GNOME desktop to Coreutils written in Rust and more. Today, the Sovereign Technology Fund outlined their latest funding to advance the open source software ecosystem.
New investments announced today by the Sovereign Technology Fund include Mamba, GNOME and PHP. , the fund will continue to fund GNOME's work on Linux desktop accessibility, tooling, and security, such as around system-owned encryption.
For PHP, the Sovereign Technology Fund has committed €205,000 to help improve PHP’s sustainability and security. PHP developers will use this STF funding to overhaul their PECL extension distribution systems, make more improvements to PHP's security and code auditing, improve PHP documentation, and do more development around testing tools.
The Sovereign Technology Fund has also launched a bug bounty program as part of its vulnerability remediation programme. The bug bounty program is primarily aimed at security researchers and will initially target the systemd and SequoiaPGP projects. The STF also offers "fix" bounties as part of fixing security issues. More details about the STF bug bounty program will be announced in the coming weeks.
For more details on the Sovereign Technology Fund’s latest efforts, please visit:
https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/newsletter-april-2024